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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much longer does the Collector estimate the food will last?

2. What color were the flags flying in the cantonment in Chapter 25?

3. On what date did Mr. Ford warn that signs of an attack were imminent?

4. Whom did Mr. Ford notice among the returning sepoys?

5. What is the name given to the surviving infant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who arrives at the Residency to announce the rescue and what does he find?

2. What has happened to the Collector's leather goods and clothing and notepaper?

3. What is the seeming snow from the sky which causes confusion to the enemy and allows the men to reload their cannons?

4. What desperate measure do the people take out of extreme hunger?

5. What does Lucy begin to do to cheer herself up?

6. What does Dr. McNab refer to as having been successful in the treatment of cholera which alarms the onlookers?

7. When Fleury visits the Collector he thinks he has cholera but what does Dr. McNab say the Collector has?

8. What does each person carry with him or her during the cholera epidemic?

9. What table is used for the altar for the Wright baby's Baptism?

10. What happens when Lucy becomes covered in Chockchafers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Discuss Louise concern about Harry's interest in Lucy. Why is she concerned? What is her opinion of Lucy?

2) What three men do the Padre and the Collector have to bury? What is the dilemma and how does the Collector solve it?

3) What is the name of the well-liked little girl who dies in the novel. What does she inspire Fleury to do?

Choose two of the three to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the author's use of symbolism using the rose in the Collector's lapel an the animals taking shelter from the heat as examples. What do they symbolise?

2) Describe how Harry helps the men with their military procedures. What does he teach them.

3) Describe examples of animals and nature the Padre uses to exemplify God's grand design. Do you find some of these a bit comical?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe the scene where Louise and Fleury are in the Sunday School. What does the Padre have the children do and what is the outcome?

2) Write about the Collector's thoughts about the electroplating technology. Why does he feel its so important?

3) What is your opinion of the Padre and his view that he is bringing salvation not only to the native Christians but to the British residents.

Do you think he is doing good or spreading fear? What are some of the points he tries to make in his sermonizing?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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